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I take mine everywhere. The only time I feel like I should hide it is when I have to leave it in the car. I also put it in my toolchest at work after lunch, but that's kind of pointless now. Everyone I work with knows I have one and where I keep it.
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Sometimes I purr.
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I didn't really mean hiding it like in a car, because one is worried it might get stolen... That's just normal behaviour as far as I'm concered.
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![]() We've changed our socialistic regime (some 20 years ago) and we have capitalism now, so differences in wealth are allowed and normally occur. Still, people look at someone who jumps out of the average kind of wrong. For example, I have a feeling people wish to be more successful than their neighbour in America. Or at least as successful. Where I live, people wish their neighbour was as unsuccessful as they were. ![]() I know this is a generalisation, but I'm just trying to paint a picture of the society I live in. |
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![]() So I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable reading from my Sony reader there either. OTOH, if I were there again I would be a visitor and should probably look at my surroundings instead of having my nose in a book. There is much to see there! ![]() |
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A friend and I noted once that in NYC, if you found a restaurant hidden in rundown block, with a dilapidated looking store front, you had chance of finding a real hidden gem and great food. In Hollywood, if the place didn't look good, the food would be worse. It seemed like in in NYC, if a restaurant had any money, they'd spend it on the food, and the building could crumble around them....who cares... In LA, if there was any money to be had, it went into image, and attracting customers FIRST, and only care about the food once they had 'buzz.' |
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Sometimes I purr.
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Speaking of not displaying our tech things in public...
My friend just bought a MacBook and he wants to install a word processing program so he can use it for university. He's asking me to skip class tomorrow to meet with him and help him install it (because he needs it the day after tomorrow). He would be embarrassed to actually bring the computer to class* and do it there, because nobody carries their laptop to class around here. We use old-school notebooks. ![]() I did a semester in Madrid and I took my laptop to class there instead of a notebook. Everybody did. It was normal. Here... it's seen as sort of pretentious. ![]() *I mean it, embarrassed, even though it's new and he adores it and he spent a year gathering the money to buy it so he's pretty proud of it now. Last edited by Ivy; 05-03-2011 at 06:22 PM. |
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![]() And yes, I have felt like a show off in Croatia at university with my reader (which costs less than many if not most of the mobile phones I see at university, so really, I shouldn't feel like a show off, but there you go. I've had people at university make rude comments about my cheap, old cell phone, however. No tact.) |
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I read it anywhere I feel like, sometimes it is annoying people seeing it and asking what it is and what it does.... Hello I'm trying to read in PEACE. But that's only when I'm in my town not another one where I don't know anyone.
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"That's different." "It is. I can remember using my computer." |
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I don't take mine out in public anymore, I used too but every time I did I would spend more time answering questions about it then reading
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The Introvert
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No. Not me.
I generally don't care what others think about me. A space around me is my space, my life. Others should mind their own business and live in their space. ![]() When I bought my first ebook reader - Sony PRS-500 there were probably 100 ebook readers in all of the UK? Kindle obviously didn't exist, even as a foetus in Jeffrey's mind. Last edited by astra; 05-04-2011 at 10:12 AM. |
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